Programming

hey i'm new at this stuff. i need to write a program in windows. which will fetch files from a unix machine using xshell. please help me with this.

Why do you need to write a program? Especially, why do you have to write a program that uses xshell? All xshell is using is ssh, for which there are programs much, much easier to write scripts with. scp for instance is actually meant for copying files, and connects to the server with the same protocol xshell(or any other ssh terminal) uses. It's available in a standalone windows executable as pscp. You can use it like

Code:

pscp user@host:path/to/remote/file local_fille

to retrieve a file, and

Code:

pscp local_file user@host:path/to/remote_file

to upload one.

i need to write a windows based program.. which will actually be running behind a GUI. user will enter search parameters in the GUI and it will access the shell machine to fetch those files. it's my project. one hint that i got was that i have to write an assembly for this.. any ideas? please help. my first progress report is on 14th of this month!!

So are you saying it does use xshell now, or it doesn't? That 'hint' about assembler is nonsense, nothing in that needs assembler. If this is homework, you need to post this in the homework forum, which has special rules.

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